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Revenue Agency stays charges against anti-abortion activist
Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010
Having no income is apparently one way to get the tax man off your back. The Canada Revenue Agency recently
stayed charges against New Brunswick anti-abortion activist David T. Little,
pictured, who refused to file income tax returns for nearly a decade on moral
grounds. The reason? Mr. Little, a 66-year-old father of eight, has no taxable
income. "CRA very much works on a dollars and
cents basis, so why spend money (on legal proceedings) to not collect money
back?" David Piccolo, a Toronto-based lawyer, said Tuesday. Keith Ward,
the prosecutor working on the case, said it was decided federal resources
should be dedicated to more important matters. Mr. Little has vowed publicly
never to file another tax return as long as there's tax-funded abortion in
Canada. In 2007, chief provincial court Judge Leslie Jackson convicted Little of failing to file income-tax returns for 2000, 2001
and 2002 and fined him $3,000.